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shortages of gasoline have plagued new york and new jersey since "sandy" hit. today, new york city mayor michael bloomberg ordered gas rationing into effect. the gunman in last year's arizona shooting rampage was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. jared lee loughner killed six people and wounded 13, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. she later resigned to focus on her recovery. several victims, including giffords, were in federal court today in tucson. her husband, astronaut mark kelly, told loughner, "you may have put a bullet through her head, but you haven't put a dent in her spirit." afterward, the u.s. attorney for arizona spoke to reporters. >> it is our hope that the final resolution of this case will be a positive step towards their healing process, physically, emotionally, and psychologically. it was with them in mind that we entered into this plea agreement with the defendant. >> sreenivasan: loughner pleaded guilty, thereby avoiding the death penalty. a warplane from iran fired on an american drone over the persian gulf last w
shortages of gasoline have plagued new york and new jersey since "sandy" hit. today, new york city mayor michael bloomberg ordered gas rationing into effect. the gunman in last year's arizona shooting rampage was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. jared lee loughner killed six people and wounded 13, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. she later resigned to focus on her recovery. several victims, including giffords, were in federal court today in tucson. her...
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still ahead, we have more on sandy: flood insurance, the cost of getting power turned back on, and the challenge of getting around america's busiest city. >> tom: october marked a pick-up in private hiring. that's the word from payroll processing firm adp. it says u.s. private payrolls grew by 158,000 positions in october. that higher than expected number comes as adp overhauls how it calculates the number by including more companies in its survey. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: the economic signals out today point in the same direction-- an economy that has moved through a rough couple of months last spring has now found stability. >> slow growth need not be fragile, so we are in a derate growth phase that appears to be quite durable. it's going to be hard to break out significantly in one direction or the other, unless we get a policy surprise or a policy mistake. >> repter: the adp payroll snapshot is seen as a kind of preview for the government's official employment report, which comes out tomorrow. factoring in job losses in statr and local government, adp projects the labor d
still ahead, we have more on sandy: flood insurance, the cost of getting power turned back on, and the challenge of getting around america's busiest city. >> tom: october marked a pick-up in private hiring. that's the word from payroll processing firm adp. it says u.s. private payrolls grew by 158,000 positions in october. that higher than expected number comes as adp overhauls how it calculates the number by including more companies in its survey. darren gersh reports. >> reporter:...
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but at least one analyst predicts sandy's hit will be temporary. erika miller reports. >> reporter: first, we had superstorm sandy. last night, a snow storm. but today, new yorkers were back to shopping in full force. contrary to conventional wisdom, natural disasters have very little long-term impact on retail spending. >> they don't destroy demand, they displace it, either forward in time-- before the event-- or after the event. or nowadays, of course, from bricks and mortar to online. >> reporter: customer growth partners looked at 20 years of natural disasters and found that in virtually every case, spending rose in the months after the event. sandy or not, the holiday season is expected to be ho-hum for retailers. the national retail federation, the retail industry's trade group, is forecasting a more than 4% gain, but customer growth partners, which does field research with shoppers, expects just a 2.8% gain. >> disposable income is weak, and disposable income is still the single biggest driver behind retail sales. so that's weak. there's fea
but at least one analyst predicts sandy's hit will be temporary. erika miller reports. >> reporter: first, we had superstorm sandy. last night, a snow storm. but today, new yorkers were back to shopping in full force. contrary to conventional wisdom, natural disasters have very little long-term impact on retail spending. >> they don't destroy demand, they displace it, either forward in time-- before the event-- or after the event. or nowadays, of course, from bricks and mortar to...
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hurricane sandy was behind at least some of the sales decline. but there are fresh worries today about the underlying strength of the american consumer. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: hurricane sandy is going to get blamed a lot in the coming weeks for soft economic data. and, rightfully so. after all the superstorm paralyzed a good chunk of the northeast for at least a week. that meant, no shopping, no eating out, and no filling up the tank. >> clearly, the retail sales data were weak and they were weak across a lot of categories. the commerce dept did talk about the affects on hurricane sandy on the numbers. but, it's hard to quantify. >> reporter: the question is whether that consumer paralysis will continue into the all important holiday retail season. many economists say that really depends on whether americans feel secure in the their jobs. here's the good news: there has recently been some improvement on the labor front. on top of that, many shoppers are finding their wallets are thicker now than this time last year. >> i think the av
hurricane sandy was behind at least some of the sales decline. but there are fresh worries today about the underlying strength of the american consumer. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: hurricane sandy is going to get blamed a lot in the coming weeks for soft economic data. and, rightfully so. after all the superstorm paralyzed a good chunk of the northeast for at least a week. that meant, no shopping, no eating out, and no filling up the tank. >> clearly, the retail sales data...
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and, remember, the latest results don't even include the sales lift from superstorm sandy. home depot also raised its profit outlook for the year. if housing continues to improve, experts say it's a bullish sign for the rest of the economy. >> now, as we start to see residential investment recovery, that should help other sectors of the economy through demand for building materials, through more demand for other products-- furniture, you name it! >> reporter: she's optimistic housing will remain one of the few bright spots in an otherwise sluggish recovery. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: it was an unhappy earnings story in the third quarter for saks. the upscale department store said sales and profits were hurt by a modest spike in promotions. on top of that, saks expects sales to be flat in the current holiday period because of a slow start to november due to hurricane sandy. noow, trouble at saks underscores new worries spreading throughout the luxury sector about the all important holiday season. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: on manhattan's 5th avenue,
and, remember, the latest results don't even include the sales lift from superstorm sandy. home depot also raised its profit outlook for the year. if housing continues to improve, experts say it's a bullish sign for the rest of the economy. >> now, as we start to see residential investment recovery, that should help other sectors of the economy through demand for building materials, through more demand for other products-- furniture, you name it! >> reporter: she's optimistic...
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now we see the same thing with sandy. i think the hope has to be at sandy isn't short for cassandra and that it's another warning that we ignore. absolutely people nat have seen that you c in fact have the worst-case scenario, which was flooding of the lower manhattan and i think any city along the eastern sea board has ask-to-ask themselves what would happen if us?icane sandy hit >> suarez: well, how do we price risk, then, into the decisions we make both publicly and privately. should there with b places in new jersey, in new york, where insurance companies say "we for you toto pay rebuild right there"? where the cost of doing so becomes higher and maybe prohibitive for some people? >> there probably should be, yes, because the alternative is we kp enticing people to place more and more of theip value, weal in more of their fragile co-systems or fragile areas of the enviwenment if we don't give them the proper price signal on risk. so somehow we have to find a way to get the state out of being the insurer of last resort
now we see the same thing with sandy. i think the hope has to be at sandy isn't short for cassandra and that it's another warning that we ignore. absolutely people nat have seen that you c in fact have the worst-case scenario, which was flooding of the lower manhattan and i think any city along the eastern sea board has ask-to-ask themselves what would happen if us?icane sandy hit >> suarez: well, how do we price risk, then, into the decisions we make both publicly and privately. should...
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volunteers from occupy sandy are here in force, along with police and the national guard. but some residents complain that representatives from government agencies like fema are scarce. eva bennick moved to a new home here eight years ago. she applied for assistance but was told on the phone her application was missing. >> they had lost the application. she found my application, she said okay, it looks like it fell through the process. i don't understand why anybody's been out there yet. nobody's been out there yet. i said, well that makes two of us. i've got to tell you the first time where we've felt like we've ever needed help. first time. and just feel like, you know, fema's supposed to be it. everybody, like my insurance company says call fema. yeah, everbody asks me that. did you call fema. i'm like, yeah. what happened? nothing. that sucks. it... it just sucks. >> reporter: fema officials contend they are responding as best they can. but because of the sheer magnitude of the work, fema official robert jensen admits some residents will be disappointed. >> this is har
volunteers from occupy sandy are here in force, along with police and the national guard. but some residents complain that representatives from government agencies like fema are scarce. eva bennick moved to a new home here eight years ago. she applied for assistance but was told on the phone her application was missing. >> they had lost the application. she found my application, she said okay, it looks like it fell through the process. i don't understand why anybody's been out there yet....
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unemployment benefits jumped to a one-and-a-half year high, surging 78,000, thanks to super- storm sandy. the total was 439,000. meantime, consumer inflation slowed to a one tenth of a percent increase, thanks to lower energy prices. without food and energy, core inflation was up two tenths of a percent. on wall street, the dow fell 28.5 points, the nasdaq was down almost ten, and the s&p 500 dropped two. if you want to know how the economy is faring, it pays to keep an eye on walmart. after all, it has over 10,000 stores across the globe, selling more than $1 billion worth of stuff every day. it earned $1.08 per share in the third quarter, a penny more than estimates, and up 11% from last year. but revenues were a little shy of forecast, and walmart's outlook for this quarter was less than anticipated. compare that to rival target's quarterly earnings-- four cents better than expectations at 81 cents a share and a holiday outlook that didn't disappoint. erika miller reports on what the results say about all-important the holiday season. >> reporter: $3.6 billion. that almost unthinkable
unemployment benefits jumped to a one-and-a-half year high, surging 78,000, thanks to super- storm sandy. the total was 439,000. meantime, consumer inflation slowed to a one tenth of a percent increase, thanks to lower energy prices. without food and energy, core inflation was up two tenths of a percent. on wall street, the dow fell 28.5 points, the nasdaq was down almost ten, and the s&p 500 dropped two. if you want to know how the economy is faring, it pays to keep an eye on walmart....
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instead, stocks sank on worries that the costs of hurricane sandy will eat into profits. the dow jones industrial average lost 139 points to close at 13,093. the nasdaq fell almost 38 points to close at 2,982. for the week, the dow and the nasdaq were off a fraction of 1%. korean auto makers hyundai and kia could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars to car owners as compensation for overstating fuel economy. the environmental protection agency now says an audit revealed that 13 models averaged up to six miles a gallon less than advertised. some 900,000 vehicles sold in the last three years are affected. u.s. intelligence officials have rejected claims they failed to answer the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. there've been reports the cia told its security officers to "stand down" and not try to repel the attackers. senior intelligence officials denied that on thursday. they said a security team responded within 25 minutes, en though eney were outmanneer and outgunned.ne those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: th
instead, stocks sank on worries that the costs of hurricane sandy will eat into profits. the dow jones industrial average lost 139 points to close at 13,093. the nasdaq fell almost 38 points to close at 2,982. for the week, the dow and the nasdaq were off a fraction of 1%. korean auto makers hyundai and kia could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars to car owners as compensation for overstating fuel economy. the environmental protection agency now says an audit revealed that 13 models...
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wound its way through the streets of manhattan, as the area still copes from the aftermath of hurricane sandy. elsewhere, volunteers served thanksgiving meals to needy families at homeless shelters across the country, like this one in washington, d.c. turkey and all the trimmings were also served to u.s. troops overseas at bases in afghanistan and kuwait. the british broadcasting corporation appointed a new director-general in the wake of its worst crisis in years. tony hall-- a former bbc news executive and currently the head of the royal opera house-- will replace george entwistle. entwistle resigned from the post earlier this month, amid a controversy stemming from the bbc's coverage of child sex abuse. >> sreenivasan: next, reducing greece's big debt. the troubled country appears to be on track to get some much- needed aid next week. but european union leaders meeting at a summit this week are still unable to agree on how to cut greece's debt to a more sustainable level. "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman has a behind the scenes look at the efforts to do so. it's part of his o
wound its way through the streets of manhattan, as the area still copes from the aftermath of hurricane sandy. elsewhere, volunteers served thanksgiving meals to needy families at homeless shelters across the country, like this one in washington, d.c. turkey and all the trimmings were also served to u.s. troops overseas at bases in afghanistan and kuwait. the british broadcasting corporation appointed a new director-general in the wake of its worst crisis in years. tony hall-- a former bbc news...
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it's been two weeks since hurricane sandy walloped the northeast, and, as of today, more than 130,000 homes and businesses across new york and new jersey still were in the dark. new york city mayor michael bloomberg warned again the process of restoration and recovery will be slow. . a lot of residents unfortunately will be out of power for a long time. but rather than complain about it or even write about it, we're trying to do something about it. we can sit around and bring or hands and say it's terrible. mother nature brought us this storm. now we're just going to deal with it. we're going to go methodically street by street building by building and help people get going. we're going to do the most important life-threatening things first. and then we'll come back. we're not going to stop until everybody is back. >> holman: there also were more signs of progress today, as gasoline rationing ended in central and northern new jersey. rationing continues in new york city. wall street slid again today, amid concerns about impending spending cuts and tax increases in washington. the dow
it's been two weeks since hurricane sandy walloped the northeast, and, as of today, more than 130,000 homes and businesses across new york and new jersey still were in the dark. new york city mayor michael bloomberg warned again the process of restoration and recovery will be slow. . a lot of residents unfortunately will be out of power for a long time. but rather than complain about it or even write about it, we're trying to do something about it. we can sit around and bring or hands and say...
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superstorm sandy failed to knock down car sales. u.s. automakers are riding high following a selling spree in october. chrysler sales jumped 10%. gm posted its highest october sales since 2007, with deliveries up 5%. ford sales inched up just .4%. the company reports truck sales stalled slightly while car sales, especially for fuel-efficient models, picked up. ford's ceo, alan mulally, told reporters yesterday he intends to stay on until 2014. mark fields companies turnaround will soon bump up to coo. in overseas action, toyota sales bounced 16% higher, while volkswagon's were up 22%, making it the best october since 1972. meanwhile, small businesses are still reeling from the effects of superstorm sandy. sandy shut down and damaged many businesses in its trail. now a lifeline for business owners could come in the form of disaster assistance. chris hurn of mercantile capital says for small business owners affected by the storm, loans could be a chance to reboot business. "one of the things that is going to come out of a life- altering ev
superstorm sandy failed to knock down car sales. u.s. automakers are riding high following a selling spree in october. chrysler sales jumped 10%. gm posted its highest october sales since 2007, with deliveries up 5%. ford sales inched up just .4%. the company reports truck sales stalled slightly while car sales, especially for fuel-efficient models, picked up. ford's ceo, alan mulally, told reporters yesterday he intends to stay on until 2014. mark fields companies turnaround will soon bump up...
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may be sandy will be different. certainly, the sheer number of people affected will make a big difference. when you are talking about 1/3 of the country, but if it is not sandy, we will experience another one that will do the trick. >> thank you very much. that is an alarming prospect. as we reported, hurricane sandy has put the u.s. presidential campaign on pause, but today, it was back to business on the trail. republican mitt romney argued that he would do a better job leading the country's economy. at his first step in wisconsin, president obama appealed for another term in office to finish the job he started. a short time ago, he was given the backing of new york's mayor michael bloomberg, who endorsed the president's citing specifically the issue of climate change. i ask the political reporter for the "washington post" what he would be watching out for. we're entering the portion of the campaign where i start to the people who run for president just have a different team than the rest of us -- different gene t
may be sandy will be different. certainly, the sheer number of people affected will make a big difference. when you are talking about 1/3 of the country, but if it is not sandy, we will experience another one that will do the trick. >> thank you very much. that is an alarming prospect. as we reported, hurricane sandy has put the u.s. presidential campaign on pause, but today, it was back to business on the trail. republican mitt romney argued that he would do a better job leading the...
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sandy could cost americans $50 billion in damage by earliest mafts. and much of the cleanup remains to be done. tonight, 675,000 people are still without power since last week's disaster. and hundreds of thousands displaced. the whole day started with high anxiety. new jersey governor chris christie urging hurricane survivors to be cautious and patient. >> you know, we may take a setback in the next 24 hours. you need to be prepared for that. i'm prepared for that. i hate setbacks. i don't tolerate them usually very well, but this one, i can't control. >> reporter: in north jersey, buildings damaged by sandy were re-boarded up. they have extra plywood now as people brace for a second battering. winds howled into new york city, where subway systems are still under repair. and now, railroads and bridges are frozen. once again, crippling the area into an impassable mess. >> really, really bad. waiting on line for gas now we're waiting on line to get home. >> it is a good idea to stay indoors with this, because hurricane sandy weakened trees and the high
sandy could cost americans $50 billion in damage by earliest mafts. and much of the cleanup remains to be done. tonight, 675,000 people are still without power since last week's disaster. and hundreds of thousands displaced. the whole day started with high anxiety. new jersey governor chris christie urging hurricane survivors to be cautious and patient. >> you know, we may take a setback in the next 24 hours. you need to be prepared for that. i'm prepared for that. i hate setbacks. i...
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along came hurricane sandy. in politics, a wise man told me once that you can never see around the corner. i don't want to minimize the tragic human dimensions of this storm and its aftermath, but this is a political program and the election is next tuesday, so here goes. new jersey gov. chris christie prior to the hurricane. >> let's give you the plane ticket back to chicago you have current. >> after sandy, he was thanking him. >> i cannot thank the president enough for his personal concern and compassion for the people of our state. >> he has put his heart and soul into making sure that the people of new jersey bounce back stronger than before. >> in the past several days, voters have seen the president on tv, the white house, the red cross with gov. christie, hugging victims, looking, well, presidential in a time of crisis. with the election practically on our doorstep, how will the politics of sandy and its aftermath play out? >> good for president obama. at a time of disaster, the only elected officials wh
along came hurricane sandy. in politics, a wise man told me once that you can never see around the corner. i don't want to minimize the tragic human dimensions of this storm and its aftermath, but this is a political program and the election is next tuesday, so here goes. new jersey gov. chris christie prior to the hurricane. >> let's give you the plane ticket back to chicago you have current. >> after sandy, he was thanking him. >> i cannot thank the president enough for his...
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hurricane sandy has killed 91 people across nine states. more than 1.8 million households remain without power. experts say providing shelter to the displaced is an urgent issue as they expect cold northwesterly winds to push temperatures down. >>> americans who are able to vote tuesday will judge the presidential candidates on a range of issues. one of them is their stance on china. some americans consider the world's second largest economy a threat. obama and romney have tried to reflect that sentiment, but as nhk world's susumu kojima tells us, campaign sound bites don't necessarily tell the full story. >> reporter: the employees in wisconsin know the pressures of their industry all too well. they watched colleague after colleague lose it because of competition from chinese factories. chinese companies break trade rules by setting imports at a loss, which pushed him to slash his workforce and hold off on expansion plans. >> any type of elected official should stand up for a level playing field. we're not asking for anything more. >> repo
hurricane sandy has killed 91 people across nine states. more than 1.8 million households remain without power. experts say providing shelter to the displaced is an urgent issue as they expect cold northwesterly winds to push temperatures down. >>> americans who are able to vote tuesday will judge the presidential candidates on a range of issues. one of them is their stance on china. some americans consider the world's second largest economy a threat. obama and romney have tried to...
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hurricane sandy may actually be good for the economy. the construction industry should get a boost from the rebuilding that follows the superstorm. and analysts say that in turn, could raise u.s. economic growth early next year. as building grows and bridges are repaired and replaced. >>> the hurricane may also keep gas prices falling. despite those long gas lines, we're seeing in the new york area, demand actually decreased after the storm. and that's keeping the downward trend going. according to aaa, gas prices nationwide were down 7 cents in the past week. 31 cents from a month ago. >> because no one can get gas right now. >>> well, the computer systems of major companies have been hacked in the past but chances are you never heard about it. bloomberg news reports that coca-cola was hacked as it was negotiating a major deal with a chinese company. companies have kept such news a secret for fear of hurting investor confidence. the attacks often originate in china. >>> the weekend box office also benefitted from the superstorm with a s
hurricane sandy may actually be good for the economy. the construction industry should get a boost from the rebuilding that follows the superstorm. and analysts say that in turn, could raise u.s. economic growth early next year. as building grows and bridges are repaired and replaced. >>> the hurricane may also keep gas prices falling. despite those long gas lines, we're seeing in the new york area, demand actually decreased after the storm. and that's keeping the downward trend going....
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sandy killed more than 40 people in new york city alone. it triggered flooding and power outages. 30,000 households in the city are still without electricity. >>> all of this may be easing. meteorologist robert speta has more on that. robert? >> that's right. actually, across new york, you know, people are waking up here to some clearing skies as that nor'easter continues to rush off there to the northeast, but already seeing that snowfall, these gusty winds near the coastline, actually in man tuckett and massachusetts. you saw a report of 84-kilometer-per-hour winds. great news, everything is easing off. unfortunately for portions of new england, as the system continues to push off, you could still be seeing 10 to 30 centimeters of additional snow out heerks and it's that wet type of snow, so driving in and around the northeast throughout the next several days, until all that mets or clears off, technician going to be rather slippery and dangerous at time, so slow down on the roads. but let's look at the other side of the country. we have
sandy killed more than 40 people in new york city alone. it triggered flooding and power outages. 30,000 households in the city are still without electricity. >>> all of this may be easing. meteorologist robert speta has more on that. robert? >> that's right. actually, across new york, you know, people are waking up here to some clearing skies as that nor'easter continues to rush off there to the northeast, but already seeing that snowfall, these gusty winds near the coastline,...
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at home, supporting disaster relief operations as in the wake of superstorm sandy that devastated parking lots of the northeast -- parts of the northeaster operations worldwide including afghanistan. while the guard is part of the air force, units -- units in each state are under the command of governors and so the guards relationship with the active duty force can sometimes be strained. that's been the case since february when the air force said that of 9,900 proposed personnel cuts, 5100 would come from the guard. a move that sparked a fire storm of protests on capitol hill. lawmakers governors and guard leaders accused the air force of failing to coordinate cuts they say fell disproportionately on citizen airmen and in protest the congress prohibited the air force from executing $9 billion in cuts freezing the services ability to shed personnel to meet targets for the budget. the new chief of staff general mark welsh on the show a few weeks ago said that one of his top priorities is to improve the relationship and regain control of his budget. joining us today to talk about the state o
at home, supporting disaster relief operations as in the wake of superstorm sandy that devastated parking lots of the northeast -- parts of the northeaster operations worldwide including afghanistan. while the guard is part of the air force, units -- units in each state are under the command of governors and so the guards relationship with the active duty force can sometimes be strained. that's been the case since february when the air force said that of 9,900 proposed personnel cuts, 5100...
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here is just one example of the mess sandy left behind. entire walls of this home were ripped apart and the living room is now covered in broken tree branches. but even for those people who have a home to come to the list of problems is daunting. staten island residents huddled around bonfires as overnight temperatures dipped into the 30s. thousands have no electricity or heat. >> i have two blankets. i try to stay under it and keep warm but not easy. >> reporter: with the mercury dropping and a nor'easter in the forecast this week city officials are scrambling to find shelter for as many as 40,000 people. this woman is trying to make her staten island home livable again. her first floor was flooded drowning her pet birds. she's thankful her family got out. >> got to take it little by little, step by step and try to get the help we need to start rebuilding. >> reporter: perfect strangers are helping with sunday's new york marathon cancelled a group of runners showed up at mary ellen's home. >> wonderful people. digging us out. it's just ov
here is just one example of the mess sandy left behind. entire walls of this home were ripped apart and the living room is now covered in broken tree branches. but even for those people who have a home to come to the list of problems is daunting. staten island residents huddled around bonfires as overnight temperatures dipped into the 30s. thousands have no electricity or heat. >> i have two blankets. i try to stay under it and keep warm but not easy. >> reporter: with the mercury...
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the road to recovery from sandy a little bit bumpy. power is slowly returning for some, but other areas could be dark for at least another week. and the gas lines, if you're not in the area, you have noed idea what this can really be like. and as the map world turns, apple stores around the country will start to sell the new ipad mini. it's friday, november 2 pd. we have four days now until election day, 2012. "squawk box" begins right now.. we have four days now until election day, 2012. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i' b
the road to recovery from sandy a little bit bumpy. power is slowly returning for some, but other areas could be dark for at least another week. and the gas lines, if you're not in the area, you have noed idea what this can really be like. and as the map world turns, apple stores around the country will start to sell the new ipad mini. it's friday, november 2 pd. we have four days now until election day, 2012. "squawk box" begins right now.. we have four days now until election day,...
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di >> susie: most of the search and rescue mission after hurricane sandy is finished. fema said today it is now working on restoring power and helping people who lost their homes find places to stay. then, it will be time to assess the damage and start working through insurance claims. but as sylvia hall reports, it could be difficult for consumers to get paid. >> reporter: if you have flood insurance, it comes from a government fund called the federal flood insurance program that's backed by the treasury. most people who don't need it, don't buy it, making it hard for the program to pay for itself in the wake of a major disaster. so it's probably no surprise that back in 2005, hurricanes katrina and rita drained the fund and plunged the program $18 billion into debt. it's debt congress planned to forgive, but hasn't yet. that leaves the program on poor financial footing with only about $4 billion worth of funds available for claims related to sandy. >> from what i've seen, this could be a $5 billion to $10 billion flooding event, so more than likely, the program will
di >> susie: most of the search and rescue mission after hurricane sandy is finished. fema said today it is now working on restoring power and helping people who lost their homes find places to stay. then, it will be time to assess the damage and start working through insurance claims. but as sylvia hall reports, it could be difficult for consumers to get paid. >> reporter: if you have flood insurance, it comes from a government fund called the federal flood insurance program that's...
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the week's top stories from superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern usa leaving one hundred dead millions called in the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli when a car bombs detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced or trying to expose government wrong. because fly in the streets of moscow russia's most radical nationalists merging in the capital and nationwide aiming to stir up divisions on the country's dave unity. within about the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly. while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york a lining up for fuel rations and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed and tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through. with the political fallout from the disaster. sh
the week's top stories from superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern usa leaving one hundred dead millions called in the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli when a car bombs detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced or trying to expose...
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. >> this week on "inside sandy's birdknoll october surprise. >> i want to thank t the presidt personally. how many votes are these pictures worth? heavy hearts with all the suffering in a major part of our country. >> how do you compete with a natural disaster? >climate change? neitr candidate wants to go it. the new unemployment number, play in the polling place? jeep jobs in china flap. >> obama took gm and chrysler bankruptcy and sold chrysler to italians who will s in china. >> it is an outrageous lie. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.icap.org-- >> we thought this was going to special preelection broadcast. that all weking have to do his handicap the election. sandy.ong came hurricane politics, all wiseman told never that you can around ththe corner. then't want to minimize tragic human dimensions of this aftermath, butt is a politil program d the election is next tuesday, so here goes. new jersey gov. chris christie prior to the storm. let's give you the plane ride back to chicago ththat you have earned. i cannot thank the president and compassion for the state.o
. >> this week on "inside sandy's birdknoll october surprise. >> i want to thank t the presidt personally. how many votes are these pictures worth? heavy hearts with all the suffering in a major part of our country. >> how do you compete with a natural disaster? >climate change? neitr candidate wants to go it. the new unemployment number, play in the polling place? jeep jobs in china flap. >> obama took gm and chrysler bankruptcy and sold chrysler to italians who...
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hurricane sandy hindered search operations for 64-year-old mohammed yazdani. this morning fairfax police were able to resume the search. teams covered a park where bloodhounds first received the scent. he suffers from dementia. >> please, he's somebody's dad, he's somebody's brother, he's somebody's husband, he's some bed's near and dear friend. he doesn't pose a threat or danger to anyone. if anyone knows anything, we ask that you please, please call the cops. >> he has walked away before but fever for this long. he was wearing sweat pants and shirts when he was last scene. >>> later tonight, joy comes in the middle of some difficult times. >> she is one heck of a story, that's for sure. >> the juxtaposition of the two is incredible. it gives you hope that there's always something good coming out of tragedy. >> a family addition in the middle of hurricane sandy. >>> but just ahead, a toddler's visit to the pittsburgh zoo turns incredibly tragic. >>> and we are tracking some very cold air moving into our region. we are going to see freeze warnings in effect fo
hurricane sandy hindered search operations for 64-year-old mohammed yazdani. this morning fairfax police were able to resume the search. teams covered a park where bloodhounds first received the scent. he suffers from dementia. >> please, he's somebody's dad, he's somebody's brother, he's somebody's husband, he's some bed's near and dear friend. he doesn't pose a threat or danger to anyone. if anyone knows anything, we ask that you please, please call the cops. >> he has walked away...
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hundred miles further east they would have had would have created the same problem that we had from sandy i'm sorry well you need to look at the historical but only if our view is that we should talk about direction we should talk about the direction of how it could because there's some research out there by some pretty reputable people saying to be changes in the arctic ice is changing the direction of that but i don't know for sure because it's one of ben and as you know it's very difficult to late from what i mean i want to go to any and i don't know man there's another man on the panel do you want to jump into anything that you've heard here go ahead . well i mean a lot of this sounds to me like to people who have already decided and one may be right one may be wrong but the point is i don't believe that the data is the short term data which richard is talking about is sufficient to be able to know if extreme weather events are increasing or decreasing i don't think it is you have to look at a longer term historical record you can you can go back a thousand years with these things you
hundred miles further east they would have had would have created the same problem that we had from sandy i'm sorry well you need to look at the historical but only if our view is that we should talk about direction we should talk about the direction of how it could because there's some research out there by some pretty reputable people saying to be changes in the arctic ice is changing the direction of that but i don't know for sure because it's one of ben and as you know it's very difficult...
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juiced up hurricane sandy. no no it just it just weakens and hurricane sandy was actually enhanced by a very strong jet stream the opposite of what would occur under a greenhouse warming scenario sorry and greenhouse warming is real by the way i'm not you know that's obvious a little and let's let's not even go there ok richard you want to say something before we went on and i thought oh you go to the barry richard go ahead and actually i want to go there with a hell of a lot of people in the u.s. senate who do go there and they're funded by the oil industry they're funded to say there's no such thing as greenhouse effect as a tool and i wish patrick was would give some of your expertise to those people and tell them you guys a row the greenhouse effect is we'll right gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a break we're going to go to a break and after that break we will continue our discussion on climate change stay with our. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage
juiced up hurricane sandy. no no it just it just weakens and hurricane sandy was actually enhanced by a very strong jet stream the opposite of what would occur under a greenhouse warming scenario sorry and greenhouse warming is real by the way i'm not you know that's obvious a little and let's let's not even go there ok richard you want to say something before we went on and i thought oh you go to the barry richard go ahead and actually i want to go there with a hell of a lot of people in the...
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sandy bump won't last. the real reason for the resurface of the rental car business could be because of what happens in washington. it is one word. and that word is consolidation! over the last decade this industry has seen a series of merge ez that allowed the rental car companies to cut costs and also raise price. and with the recent acquisition of dollar thrifty by hertz, there are now only four players that really matter here. just four. and one of them, enterprise is private. which means you have only three possible ways to play this bull market. there is hertz, second largest player through enterprise and the largest traded rental company and avis. and now that thrifty is taken over, the last one is zip car. it's been a total dog. now back in june before we knew about the dollar thrifty deal, i told you to buy hertz. it was best in breed. it was a heck away from zip car. because it fell like a flash in the pan. since then, hertz has given you 18% gain. zip car plummeted, wow, 30%. in august we found o
sandy bump won't last. the real reason for the resurface of the rental car business could be because of what happens in washington. it is one word. and that word is consolidation! over the last decade this industry has seen a series of merge ez that allowed the rental car companies to cut costs and also raise price. and with the recent acquisition of dollar thrifty by hertz, there are now only four players that really matter here. just four. and one of them, enterprise is private. which means...
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about an october surprise, hurricane sandy, super storm sandy, perhaps filling that role this year. but in china, a similar surprise in the emergence of the figure here who is now if anything seen as orchestrating perhaps a transition that will be less reformist and how do you expect that to comply indicate u.s. china relations from here? >> in terms of the chinese equivalent of the october surprise, i would actually argue that they've had surprise after surprise after surprise throughout the year. we have to remember the earlier stories about the possible senior position on the standing committee, their leadership. and of course given the events earlier this year vis-a-vis his wife allegedly killing a british businessman, the level of corruption, he was dismissed from the party and is now jailed. so there's been quite a few surprises in what is normally a very well structured process into the chinese transition. in terms of the u.s. china rlgs ship, in a broad sense, i don't anticipate much of a change. the interconnectedness between the u.s. and china is so great that neither coun
about an october surprise, hurricane sandy, super storm sandy, perhaps filling that role this year. but in china, a similar surprise in the emergence of the figure here who is now if anything seen as orchestrating perhaps a transition that will be less reformist and how do you expect that to comply indicate u.s. china relations from here? >> in terms of the chinese equivalent of the october surprise, i would actually argue that they've had surprise after surprise after surprise throughout...